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From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Bring in all the Linux headers we depend on in QEMU
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 13:42:54 +0100
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On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 12:08 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> In general a distro provides kernel headers matched to the running 
> kernel.  For example F10 provides 
> kernel-headers-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 to go along with 
> kernel-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64.  So a user running a distro 
> kernel (the majority, given that most people don't inflict pain upon 
> themselves unnecessarily) will have exactly the features exported by the 
> kernel.

Right, but if you e.g. try to build a newer qemu-kvm on F10, you
currently need newer kvm kernel headers - IMHO, we should use #ifdef to
allow newer qemu-kvm build with older kvm headers.

Cheers,
Mark.